Lecture 14: Aftermath of War

I. Introduction

A. Announcements

1. Case Study is due today

2. Readings for 11/22 available on line: via website or CARMEN

B. Review

C. Questions

1. What characterized the interwar period?

2. How does war impact society? Politics? The economy?

3. Did the “long 19th century” end with 1914? Does the 20th century begin with 1918?

4. What is the relationship between the interwar period and World War II?

II. Immediate Aftermath of War

III. Interwar period – Period of extremes

A. Impact on economy

B. On society

C. Extremes in the political scene

1. promise of democratic rebirth

2. decline of democracy

3. Soviet Union

4. Italy

D. Cultural Shifts

Questions

• what characteristics marked the interwar period?

• how should you periodize this period?

• What is fascism? Totalitarianism? What countries embraced which ideologies? Why?

• Who was Mussolini? How does Mussolini describe fascism? What does he call for in his program?

• who is concerned about the masculinization of women and why??

TERMS

a. Weimar republic

b. Reparation

c. Sejm

d. paramilitary groups

e. Freikorps

f. “the November criminals”

g. “Little Entente”

h. 1923 Beer Hall Putsch

i. totalitarianism

j. parallelism

k. central committee

l. politburo

m. Stalin

n. five year plan

o. kulaks

p. purge trials

q. Fascism

r. Mussolini

s. Black Shirts

t. National Fascist party

u. Lateran Treaty of 1929

v. Sinn Fein movement

w. Fritz Lang

x. dada movement

y. Bauhaus

z. Walter Gropius

aa. TS Eliot

bb. Franz Kafka

cc. Great Depression

dd. Mohandas Gandhi